r/mesaaz • u/aj_rubio • 1d ago
Is the entire city of Mesa under road construction???
No matter where I drive in Mesa, there is road construction. I'm all for better roads, but the road construction by my house is for apartments two blocks away. They closed off the street out of my neighborhood to pull sewer lines. For the next month, there is an additional 5 minutes to leave and come home because they closed the street right by our neighborhood entrance and have to drive all the way around to come in the back way.
And they are building the apartments in the strangest location off of the 202 and Gilbert road. Totally below sea level. LOL!!
Just wanted to vent. There are definitely worse things in life to get upset about. At least they say this construction will be done by July 3rd 🤞
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u/Mesonian 1d ago
The construction at Gilbert & McKellips is getting really old.
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u/Megatippa 1d ago
You're telling me. I work very close by and was so excited when it was finished, only to see it get ripped open again a week later. It really is infuriating to see a new area with orange cones pop up every week and none of the existing ones getting finished
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u/GaryBlackLightning 18h ago
Greenfield Road between Southern and University was under construction for over 3 years, just recently finished up (within last 6 months or so).
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u/Ok-Seaworthiness-542 1d ago
I thought it was mostly done? It's gotten better at least. I was having to drive through the intersection and then do a u turn.
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u/AnimeNerd66 1d ago
I have no problem with road work but wish they would minimize the area and progress rather than shut down half the streets and never working on all of them. It’s a joke to shut down miles of road at a time in multiple areas.
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u/Gborg_3 1d ago
I was doing land surveying ~15 years ago here and there has not been any time the road construction I see being done here now would not have cost the company their license to practice business. Most of what I see being done is antifunctionally designed and built too. How are our tax dollars being wasted on this shit?
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u/NightSisterSally 5h ago
Jobs to the lowest bidder who sub-contracts to the lowest bidder on Traffic Control Plans
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u/Gborg_3 3h ago
That would only work with the necessary standards and a way to enforce them. The functionality of so much of what I am seeing done needs a massive reassessment too because the infrastructure needs to match necessary function. Not useless traffic flow impeding medians anywhere when they have zero purpose beyond making traffic constantly shit and causing accidents due to very unclear design. Now roundabouts, they should only be used parking type areas. They are another impedance to safety and function when mixed for normal use with standard 4 way intersections.
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u/cupcakesandunicorns1 1d ago
Main Street has been under construction for YEARS!! It's so annoying.
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u/swissmissys 22h ago
Right!! When does this end???? Also, the closure of signal butte (and Crismon and Ellsworth) and main keeps Getting pushed out. It better be done by Friday as they say!!
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u/cupcakesandunicorns1 22h ago
I was trying to get to my doctor on signal butte and broadway and ended up having to take the freeway. So dumb.
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u/RVFullTime 1d ago
Some of the roadblocks seem to be associated with cable installation.
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u/ibeatu85x 1d ago
Google Fiber maybe? i know theyve been expanding into Mesa for a while now.
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u/StrangeCress3325 1d ago
Every 2-3 months Google fiber comes to our neighborhood, spends a week drilling at the streets causing god awful house-shaking drilling and rumbling noises, and then leave. And then 2-3 months later they come back and do it all again
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u/e_line_65 1d ago
I just wish they would fix it right the first time. I forget how many times i see a road getting torn up that was just worked on the year before.
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u/No-Designer1510 1d ago
You do know there are multiple utilities in the ground and that not all of them can be worked at once right? Trenches have to be backfilled before you open another up so they don’t collapse. Having multiple contractors on top of each other wouldn’t help either.
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u/e_line_65 1d ago
Came from a place with twice the population and those things were probably coordinated to avoid this exact problem.
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u/Recorbbo 1d ago
It may look like it is under construction but I have seen 2 days of progress on Val Vista in the last 2 months!! So fun!!
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u/moonyriot 1d ago
City of like 500,000 that has next to no public transportation is actually really hard on infrastructure in a way that, unfortunately, requires near constant maintenance.
Also, people seem to really want functional sewer systems, no visible power lines, and fiber internet. Which also means you gotta dig up the road sometimes.
Instead of being annoyed, I try to be grateful that I'm not the one doing the work in the heat or in the middle of the night, right next to people who are definitely not considerate of construction zone speed limits.
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u/BrownsRaider7 1d ago
I swear (and I admit maybe it’s just me) I have seen more construction in AZ than I have in CA, the alleged traffic state.
Every single summer, especially August there is some construction near ASU.
Now it seems to repeat itself in Mesa where I am living.
But idk, maybe the roads just need that kinda work all the time.
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u/Slight-Wash-2887 1d ago
Yes. Almost as smart as whoever decided that mid-May was the perfect time to demolish and rebuild the pool in my complex. Closed for 6+ weeks starting mid-May. Right when kids are off for summer break and it's going to be a million degrees.
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u/Live_Free_Or_Die_91 1d ago
I commute 9 miles to work and for 6 months there was no actual way there and back that didn't have lane closures, unless of course I wanted to drive 21 miles and circumnavigate like 3 surface streets to do so.
Space it out at least, I agree.
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u/Comprehensive-Cow69 1d ago
Yeah what sucks is all the pop up, no Turn signs. As a Lyft Driver, Lyft does not know I am not allowed to not turn. So it creates hella problems with the accepting of rides. You think it will be a 5 min pick up, and it becomes a 10 minute U Turn, several mile drive around. But I feel like City of Mesa probably doesn't care about the inconvenience of the gig workers.
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u/RVtech101 1d ago
Wouldn’t be so bad if they didn’t close it to do water lines. Then close it for sewer lines. Then close it for fiber optic lines. Do all that crap same friggin time!
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u/blckdiamond23 21h ago
Grew up in Mesa. Work in construction. It’s the 3rd largest city in Arizona behind Phoenix and Tucson. 37th largest in the country. Massive amounts of development has been going on for years and will continue. It’s an ever changing city.
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u/bob_lala 1d ago
look at it the other way, if there were no road construction going on, you’d be bitching about the state of the roads
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u/Wong_Kangaroo 1d ago
Let's do all the road construction all at the same time. We can even do it during the hottest time of year too!